The Red Fairy Book, The Ratcatcher, sentence 39

When the square was quite full the bagpiper faced about, and, still playing briskly, turned towards the river that runs at the foot of the walls of Hamel.

Who acts: square, bagpiper, river · What happens: be, face, play, turn, run · To what, where: river, foot

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Ratcatcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (square, bagpiper, river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 full	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 square	det
3	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 full	advmod
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bagpiper	det
8	bagpiper	bagpiper	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 faced	nsubj
9	faced	face	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 full	acl:relcl
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 faced	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 playing	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 playing	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 playing	punct
14	still	still	ADV	_	15 playing	advmod
15	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 full	parataxis
16	briskly	briskly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 playing	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turned	punct
18	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 playing	parataxis
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	21 river	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turned	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 runs	nsubj
23	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 river	acl:relcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 foot	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 foot	det
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 runs	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 walls	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 walls	det
29	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 foot	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Hamel	case
31	Hamel	Hamel	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 walls	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the square			full property	tree rules
2	face	past	the bagpiper			about property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	play	gerund			still	briskly property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	turn	participle		the river			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards river=Trajectory
5	run	present	the river	the foot of the walls of Hamel			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Trajectory

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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